Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI; Arabic: الاتحاد الإسلامي, lit. 'The Islamic Union') was an Islamist politico-military group in Somalia. Formed in 1983 through...
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May 2015) was a Somali Islamist who was a senior leader within al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). He later founded the...
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Hassan Dahir Aweys (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
start of the Civil War, beginning with Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya from 1991. After the effective dissolution of Al-Itihaad in 1997, he became the head of an Islamic...
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newspaper that was published in 2017 Al-Ittihad, Ramallah, a town in the Palestinian territories Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, an Islamist militant group in Somalia...
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Somali National Front (section Conflict with Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya and early Sharia Courts (1994 - 1996))
erupted near Kenya's border city of Mandera during clashes between Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the SNF, backed by Ethiopian Air Force helicopter gunships...
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Leaders: Hassan Dahir Aweys, Abdullahi Ali Afrah (aasbaro) Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki Area of Operations: Southwest (Ras Kamboni, Luuq) Religious Affiliations:Sunni...
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by a variety of Somali Islamic groups within the city. Notably, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a prominent Somali Islamist militant organization that had previously...
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but also to the older al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, a group founded on the tenets of Salafism and opposition to clannism. Many early al-Shabaab leaders had also...
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List of designated terrorist groups (redirect from Jamiat al-Islah al-Idzhtimai)
Organizations listed by the United Nations Security Council ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. Below is the list of organizations that have officially...
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region, primarily the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI). The war in the region began in 1992, when the Ethiopian...
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Masood Azhar (category People designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to meet with leaders of al-Itihaad al-Islamiya[citation needed], an al-Qaeda-aligned Somali group, who had requested money...
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pretense that Jama was a supporter the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. The Ethiopian government was opposed to the TNG, and by extension...
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the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, 2019- al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a Somali Islamist group AiAi, a character in the Super Monkey Ball...
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fought side by side against UNOSOM forces. Somali fighters from Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya also joined the battle. On the morning of 3 October 1993, a locally...
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Islamic Courts Union (redirect from Ittihād al-mahākim al-islāmiyya)
followed, a youth faction within the military wing of the Islamic Courts, Al-Shabaab, stayed behind and broke away, initially empowering themselves as...
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safest areas for much of the 1990s. The militant religious group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) also rose to power in the region later, taking over the city...
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al-Quaida". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Thomas Joscelyn (19 November 2014). "UN recognizes ties between Ansar al Sharia in Libya, al Qaeda"...
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forces to successfully expel an Islamist extremist group linked to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya that had taken over Bosaso, a prominent port city and the commercial...
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the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991, Madobe was a member of Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. He fought for the group during its unsuccessful attempt to take...
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claimed Jama supported Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. In January 2002, Ethiopia intervened again, accusing Jama of harboring members of Al-Itihaad—a claim Jama denied...
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Ali Mohamed Rage (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
known as Ali Dheere, is the head spokesman for the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, and a member of the group’s supreme council. Accounts of Ali Mohamed...
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police apprehended a suspect whom they claimed was a member of Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya. Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency...
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Hizbul Islam (section Defeat by Al-Shabaab 2009-2010)
chairman of the group. Later became Al-Shabaab's spiritual leader. Advance of the Islamic Courts Union Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Al-Shabaab (Somalia) Islamic Courts...
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Abdulkadir Nur Farah (category People assassinated by the Al-Shabaab (militant group))
movement. Sheikh Abdulkadir also co-founded Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya in 1984, which originated from the Jemaah Islamiya coalition in southern Somalia and Unity...
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city during 1993. A major Somali Islamist militant organization, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, also began participating in the insurgency against UN forces in...
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existing Somali political entities in the Ogaden, the ONLF and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), organized themselves into different constituencies across...
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The currently active jihadist groups in Somalia derive from the Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya group active during the 1990s. In July 2006, a Web-posted message...
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existing Somali political entities in the Ogaden, the ONLF and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), organized themselves into different constituencies across...
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Ziyad al Jarrah Battalions (AAB) Abu Nidal Organisation Abu Sayyaf Aden-Abyan Islamic Army Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Al Ghurabaa Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Al-Muhajiroun...
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Mogadishu and other Somali cities and that they have strong links to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya." In July 2003, at the Somali National Reconciliation Conference...
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